If you find yourself at Polish Fest this weekend, or if you have photos from any other festivals this summer, send your best selfies and party pics to festivals@jsnewsroom.com. You'll see them live in Tap Milwaukee's reader photo gallery. Be sure to say hi to Tap correspondents, Heather and Brandon, who will be at Polish Fest on Sunday, too. | June 14, 2013»Read Full Article

Jennifer DiNoia as Elphaba and Hayley Podschun as Glinda in "Wicked" the musical.

Watching Hayley Podschun's captivating Glinda on Thursday night at the Marcus Center, I realized how much this ambitious sorority girl from Oz has in common with the musical in which she co-stars with Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West.

Like the dazzling Glinda, "Wicked" knows how to milk an entrance, fill a room and put on a show. This is the same tour that was here in 2010, and the production values in evidence then continue to impress, from the lavish Edwardian costumes and matching steampunk set to the spectacular lighting design and 14-piece pit orchestra. | June 14, 2013»Read Full Article

If you ask me, I'll tell you that "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" is Neil Gaiman's portrait of the artist as a young man. With this book, Gaiman has crafted an achingly beautiful memoir of an imagination and a spellbinding story that sets three women at the center of everything.

If you ask me, I'll tell you that this is not only a creation myth (of imagination, of a meaningful life, of the universe), but also a wonderful fairy tale with some truly creepy moments. Set in the English countryside of Gaiman's childhood, the story's middle-aged narrator (an artist) flees a family funeral, retreating "toward a house that had not existed for decades." He ends up at the pond at the end of the lane where he first met the Hempstock women (Old Mrs. Hempstock, Ginnie and Lettie), a trinity of females who recall when "the moon was made," who can "snip fragments of time," and who are "not in the fabric of the universe," but "outside of it." | June 14, 2013»Read Full Article

Journal Broadcast Group, owners of WTMJ-AM (620) and WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), is partner in an awards event for conservative women.

The committee to choose the winner of what is being called the Right Women Awards, was announced Thursday on Charlie Sykes' WTMJ-AM show by Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. | June 14, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(33)

Journal Sentinel dining critic Carol Deptolla will answer your questions about the local dining scene in a noon chat. Share your good or bad restaurant experiences, questions, recommendations or changes you've noticed while dining out and she'll respond during the chat.

Venice, Italy — Every two years, this ancient and liquidy city is deluged by the art world, making it seem more unreal than it already is. Curators, collectors, critics and artists cram onto the Venetian islands for a three-day preview of what is effectively the Olympics of art, the Venice Biennale.

Attired like something out of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” – tailored and European and with all of the ingratiating and insinuating implied by that reference – many of the well-heeled dash like 8-year-olds sprinting for Space Mountain when the gates open each day. | June 14, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(1)

How do you know when you are a man? Why is it so difficult for black men in this culture to be themselves? Why wouldn’t you be happy with your son being gay? Do you really feel free?

These are some of the questions that black men have asked other black men through a video-mediated art project called “Question Bridge: Black Males,” by Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson. | June 14, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Superman turns 75 but you wouldn't know it to look at Henry Cavill, the star of "The Man of Steel." The newest movie in the Superman franchise opens today and Duane Dudek has the review. | June 14, 2013»Read Full Blog Post